If only

How many times in life, while we are busy with the business of making a career and sundry stuff like that, do we start losing touch with reality. You know, take people for granted, parents, friends, your significant other and even yourself. There is always something important to attend to before we can set our affairs in order, and once we are done, something else pops up and then yet another something else. This vicious cycle continues, and before we know it, we are sucked so deep into the whirlpool that all things become secondary. When do we realise that the elusive perfect day, that we have been waiting for, when all will be in order, is just a myth, a figment of wishful thinking? When do we pause, take a moment to consider and stop taking people in our life for granted? Do we really need to be jolted by tragedy? Something to ponder, huh? Isn't "someday" a code for never?

If only, is a beautiful movie about a much in love couple, Samantha (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Ian (Paul Nicholls...sexy british accent BTW!). Sam is a gifted musician and Ian a successful business man, who is so busy with work, that he hasn't a minute to spare for his girlfriend. Untill a fateful accident takes Sam away from him. But then, this is reel life and not real life. Hence Ian get to relive the day once more. Which, he thankfully, spends with Sam, listening to her, talking to her and basically sharing his life with her. Now if you think I have given away the plot, let me assure you I have not. Do watch the movie...promise you'd love it.

So the moral of the story: love, appreciate and cherish the people in your life, for a split second can take them away, and you would be filled with regrets which are hard to get over. For in life there are hardly second chances. For, how can you be in love somebody and not know how to love them?

Its a beautiful movie, with wonderful English country-side and fanstic chemistry between Jennifer and Paul. Its a movie that would certainly find a place in your DVD rack.

Let me leave you with a line from Sam's diary: there is always one in a relationship, who loves more. I hope it isn't me...

Do watch the movie and hope it is not "someday"